.:Official Winamp Topic:.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 3 Jan 2003, 01:14

Post all your useful(?) info about Winamp here. Have you upgraded to Winamp 3 yet, what's the coolest / best / worst skin and plugin etc.

I still use Winamp 2.X. Version 3 is still too buggy. The (only) skin I'm using is called "Metampmorphosis 2". It rocks. The only kind of plugins I use is sound enhancement ones. The one I'm currently using is called "Dee2". It has loads of settings, and it's totally free!

Post by **SveinR** » 3 Jan 2003, 01:28

I use winamp3, default skin. I still have winamp2 though, also default skin.

I haven't really experienced any bugs with winamp3, but it takes a while to load, because it uses way more resources than winamp2. I've also found the sound on them to be slightly different, but I don't want to elaborate on that any more.

The only bad thing about winamp3 (except that it loads slowly) is that it doesn't show the total playing time of a playlist, as winamp2 did. But this is merely because it is still new, and they haven't made it perfect yet, they just wanted to bring it to public as soon as possible.

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 3 Jan 2003, 02:04

I dunno, I've gotten some strange errors with Winamp3 before. Could be just my computer however. I use 2.xx.

I use no plugins, no skins, nothing else.

dz · Post by dz » 3 Jan 2003, 03:06

http://www.i-adrian.home.ro/enhancer.htm

from here you can find a very good sound enhancer plugin for winamp 2 series.

it's absolutely marvellous, i cannot listen to "normal" sound without it anymore, even if i configure internal equalizer as good as i can, it doesn't get at all as good as this plugin can do. highly recommended.

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 3 Jan 2003, 09:49

ARG!

Are you still using Winamp, I stopped using that sucky program even before versin 2 was out...

You should delete your winamp and begin to use MusicMatch Jukebox instead.

You can get it from

www.musicmatch.com

dz · Post by dz » 3 Jan 2003, 11:16

well winamp has great sound, and that's pretty much only thing i want from it. i don't really enjoy "all-in-one" progs cuz they tend to have weak areas, i rather prefer having seperate best programs for each task

DYW265 · Post by **DYW265** » 3 Jan 2003, 13:09

i used winamp 3 before but now i always got this annoying message: Studio.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. you will need to restart the program. an error log is being created.

sad..

Xhomaz · Post by **Xhomaz** » 3 Jan 2003, 13:58

I'm using winamp 2.81, which I think is the best version. Some newer versions enqueues the songs you're double-clicking on, instead of playing them. I don't like that. I also have winamp3 at my fathers house, but I'm not used to it yet, maybe I will be..

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 3 Jan 2003, 13:59

winamp 3 made my computer as slow as a bitch,
so back to version 2.xx, and she runs fine, too many bugs in winamp 3 for me to bothered with

so choice skins though

Post by **SveinR** » 3 Jan 2003, 15:09

Oh, forgot to mention, there is a tiny bug I've discovered with winamp3.
(Maybe I just ought to edit my post, but what the hell, who reads it a second time)

It seems to be having problems recognizing (with CDDB) the CD's I play, only once or twice has it come up with something other than "Unknown".

kenny · Post by **kenny** » 3 Jan 2003, 15:10

2.81 IS the best version
3.0 is somewhat sucky

2Xhomaz:
That's an adjustable option. You must disable "enqueue as default action".

By the way, the BEST visualization plugin is eonic2
I really mean it. Only 1,1 MB.
http://www.gizmozone.com/download.php?I ... c0041c6010

insane guy · Post by **insane guy** » 3 Jan 2003, 16:33

kopaka:
i hate music match most of all... for some reason...
winamp 2.x:
put good music in it!

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 4 Jan 2003, 00:30

dz wrote:http://www.i-adrian.home.ro/enhancer.htm

from here you can find a very good sound enhancer plugin for winamp 2 series.

it's absolutely marvellous, i cannot listen to "normal" sound without it anymore, even if i configure internal equalizer as good as i can, it doesn't get at all as good as this plugin can do. highly recommended.

Not bad, but Dee2 is MUCH better. Try it!

BTW, the internal equalizer isn't supposed to do very much... the changes in it has a higher "priority" than the plugins however, so changes in the equalizer changes the sound more than you might think.

dz · Post by dz » 4 Jan 2003, 00:41

well it's not free... it took me to some gimme $$$ web page when i tried to enable treble effect ;\

seemed pretty ok though

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 4 Jan 2003, 04:59

does anyone use media player or quiktime or realplayer to play mp3's
caus i was thinking of a switch

Xhomaz · Post by **Xhomaz** » 4 Jan 2003, 15:07

kenny wrote:2Xhomaz:
That's an adjustable option. You must disable "enqueue as default action".

Ok, I didn't knew that

Anyway, I will continue using 2.81

MJXII · Post by **MJXII** » 4 Jan 2003, 21:30

I've got the answer to the winamp3 "Studio.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows" problem. Basically, (i'm assuming you're using default skin) you have to make sure that the bit at the bottom says "playlist xxx: xxx items", where Xs are numbers. sometimes for whatever reason this bit is greyed out, and trying to add files will make it crash. So if this is the case, click "playlist" and then "create new playlist" then start adding stuff.

DYW265 · Post by **DYW265** » 5 Jan 2003, 01:35

one thing i just hate with winamp 2.xx is if you have shuffle enabled and the press play, in winamp3 a random new track will be played, but in winamp 2.xx the same tracks start over. thatÂ´s bad.

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 5 Jan 2003, 09:39

DYW265 wrote:one thing i just hate with winamp 2.xx is if you have shuffle enabled and the press play, in winamp3 a random new track will be played, but in winamp 2.xx the same tracks start over. thatÂ´s bad.

If that's your biggest problem, I think you're lucky

dz · Post by dz » 5 Jan 2003, 10:00

DYW265 wrote:one thing i just hate with winamp 2.xx is if you have shuffle enabled and the press play, in winamp3 a random new track will be played, but in winamp 2.xx the same tracks start over. thatÂ´s bad.

i noticed that actually first time in my life yesterday.. yeh that is annoying

Napoleon · Post by **Napoleon** » 5 Jan 2003, 13:53

I got Winamp 3,0, i cant see what is wrong with it... And of course i use The Elma Skin to it

It rules!

dz · Post by dz » 18 Dec 2003, 18:19

Have you tried the new offical winamp 5.0 with elma?
Mine doesn't really like it... gets laggy now & then.

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 18 Dec 2003, 19:28

i used to use winamp 3 but i found it lagged everything as well, so now im back to good ole winamp 2.xx, how big is v5 and how much extra stuff does it come with?

dz · Post by dz » 18 Dec 2003, 20:01

5 is alot lighter than 3, its compatible with most 2 stuff, like plugins and skins, can't really say bad things about it, and takes only 1% of my cpu usage. i like.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 19 Dec 2003, 08:40

ye, Winamp 5 seems to be really good, as opposed to the sucky version 3.
And the new included skin is actually usable!

Post by **SveinR** » 19 Dec 2003, 21:04

Well, Winamp5 is good, but pretty bad when it comes to playing CDs. It takes some 5 secs to change between each track, and has to reload the CD when it does. Does anyone know a way to get around this?

dz · Post by dz » 19 Dec 2003, 21:14

Im afraid I cannot help you since I never listen to CDs.
Always rip em as mp3s.

But I do remember the times I still did that, I couldn't use Winamp then either, but that was because every time track switched, there was some small pause in elma.

That's why I downloaded some extremely light cd-player program which did the job just fine.

Post by **SveinR** » 19 Dec 2003, 21:20

dz wrote: That's why I downloaded some extremely light cd-player program which did the job just fine.

Well yes, I could of course use Windows's built-in one

But then I don't get the EQ

dz · Post by dz » 19 Dec 2003, 23:44

I found out my elma lags a bit if I have Winamp5 shown at the desktop, as I minimize it, the lag is gone. It's perfectly fine by me.